At one point in this poem the speaker describes "Tower'd cities…where throngs of knights and barons bold / In weeds of peace high triumphs hold," and he exhorts a nymph to bri
At one point in this poem the speaker describes "Tower'd cities…where throngs of knights and barons bold / In weeds of peace high triumphs hold," and he exhorts a nymph to bring "quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, / Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles." A "cottage chimney smokes / From betwixt two aged oaks," and "Towers…where perhaps some beauty lies" are said to be "the cynosure of neighboring eyes." The speaker requests that "If Jonson's learned sock be on / Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, warble his native wood notes wild" he be lapped "in soft Lydian airs." Referring to this work's companion piece, this poem opens with a description of an emotion that "in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwells" and was "of Cerberus, and blackest midnight born" and "In Stygian cave forlorn," melancholy, and ends by declaring "Mirth, with thee I mean to live." For 10 points name this poem by John Milton, the companion poem of "Il Penseroso."
At one point in this poem the speaker describes "Tower'd cities…where throngs of knights and barons bold / In weeds of peace high triumphs hold," and he exhorts a nymph to bring "quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, / Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles."
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